Improvement in billiard-cue cutters



F. R. GARD N ER.

Improvement in Billiard-Cue Cutters.

,Patente'd Aug.27, 1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OEEIoE.

EREDERicK R. GARDNER, 0E CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,912, dated August 27, 1872 Specification describing a certain Improvement in Cue-Gutters, invented by FREDERICK 1t. GARDNER, of Cleveland, in the county of Uuyahoga and State of Ohio.

This invention relates to a device for cutting off the worn tips of billiard-cues. It consists in a wooden or metal tube, say five inches in length, with a bore large enough to readily admit the smaller end of a cue; said tube having a metal plate attached to one end, which plate has an orifice opening into the bore of the tube, a central pin to hold the end of the cue, and a knife placed across the orifice, with the edge of which the one comes in contact and by which.the cue is cut when rotated, the tube having springs inside to direct the one, on entering the tube, toward the aforesaid pin.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.

A is the tube aforesaid; a, the springs secured inside the tube so as to guide the cue to the center; a, the metal plate screwed to the end of the tube; 0, the orificeof the plate, of nearly crescent shape; '5, the pin extending inward from a part, m, of the plate,which projects partly across the said orifice, the pin being at the center of the plate; and n, the knife which occupies a recess in the outside of the plate 0, being screwed to the plate, and having a slanting edge, a, which, near one corner, is in contact with the pin 6 and extends quite across the orifice e.

The cue, being introduced within the tube A, is guided by the springs a tothe pin t, which is made to penetrate the end of the one by drawing on the tube until the knife-edge meets the cue. Then, by turning the one with onehand and drawing on the tube with the other, the-knife is caused to trim the end of the cue very quickly and perfectly, and to any extent.

I claim as my invention- 7 The tube A, combined with the springs a, plate .0, pin 11, and stationary knife n, in the manner and for the purpose specified.

' FREDERICK R. GARDNER.

WVitn esses:

EDW. P. CLARKE, PAUL KING. 

